Development workers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Institute for Computational Sustainability are using satellites and mobile phones to help herders in Kenya find food for their animals
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded $4.7 million to a Cornell-led effort to help corn growers reduce their carbon footprint and improve net profits. (July 5, 2011)
To foster the growth of equitable, healthful and sustainable community food systems, Cornell will receive $1 million of a five-year, $5 million multistate project. (June 21, 2011)
Researchers have developed genetically engineered orange trees to fight a deadly bacterial citrus disease in Florida. The trees will soon be put to the test.
Two tiny wasps have been found in Geneva, N.Y.: One hasn't been seen on this continent since its initial discovery by Cornell scientists in 1915, and the other has never been seen here.
El Salvador and Guatemala join 84 other countries that now have access to The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library project, run out of Cornell's Mann Library. (Jan. 9, 2012)
A new major to give students an interdisciplinary education in the biological, social and economic foundations of agriculture is now offered in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. (Sept. 27, 2007)
Those large, inflatable plastic characters that loom over used car lots have a new purpose: scaring away birds that cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to U.S. orchards and vineyards.
Nine faculty-led teams conducting research with undergraduate students have received Undergraduate Engaged Research Programs grants, administered by Engaged Cornell.